ANGER – While Marseille has not finished with the second strike of garbage collectors in two months, traders have just learned that they will have to pay a new tax called “special fee to finance garbage collection “.
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When this pizza maker got the mail last spring, he thought it was such a bad joke that he didn’t take it seriously. And yet, today, he finds himself having to pay a new special charge for household waste, requested by the metropolis in charge of waste collection in Marseille.. “I have to pay 725 euros a year for garbage while the city is a rotten thing. There is a strike of the garbage cans every three months. We must stop,” is surprised Nicolas Pontier, manager of the restaurant “Paradis Pizza”.
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This special fee is only intended for traders and companies who throw their household waste on the public highway. In this butchery, it is also incomprehension. Carole Peritore, the manager, collects around ten boxes of merchandise and garbage bags per day. For her, the bill is steep. The amount of this fee, which applies everywhere in France, is calculated according to the number of waste produced by these professionals.
2,500 tonnes of waste on city sidewalks
The amount of this fee, which applies everywhere in France, is calculated according to the number of waste produced by these professionals. But in Marseille, traders do not understand its interest. This fee was put in place to cover the costs of the community which takes care of the collection and treatment of waste. “There is no obligation of the community to remove to call on private companies, but if you remain with the removal by the community, you must pay this famous additional tax. This is the principle of simply polluter pays “, says Yves Moraine, metropolitan councilor (LR).
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A principle difficult to grasp for the Marseillais. 2,500 tonnes of waste are still present on the city’s sidewalks. The strike is almost over. Today, the police headquarters requisitioned the last recalcitrant agents.
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